Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 286, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1913 — LIVE STOCK [ARTICLE]

LIVE STOCK

ON HOG GROWING. Value of Skim Milk Feeding on thl Production of Park. Through a long series of experiments conducted at Ottawa and Guelph and all over America It has been found that with the average price of grains the cost of producing a pound of pork from the time a pig Is two months old, or weighs about 80 pounds, until he Is six or seven months old and weighs from 100 to 200 pounds is from 4 to 4% cents a pound, says the Indiana Farmer. Our experiments go to show that by judicious use of skim milk In conneotlon with the meals or grains, we are able to produce a pound of pork for from one cent to a cent and a half less than where meals alone are used. To get the very best results It Is quite unnecessary and disadvantageous to feed skim milk or whey In the largest quantity. The very best results came from where we fed from two or three pounds of skim milk to one pound of meal. With such feed we find our skim milk will replace sufficient meal so that we are really selling It for from 40 to 45 cents a hundred pounds. If we feed our pigs from five to eight pounds a day we are selling It at the rate of 42 cents per hundred pounds. As we increase the proportion of skim milk to meal down comes the value of our whey or skim milk. Wherever we have fed skim milk we have got a very Improved article of pork. The pigs have hardly ever been too fat. The skim milk seems to induce growth of the very best kind. In every case where we have fed skim milk the bacon has been select, and when we killed. It has been In every case hard and very seldom too hard, either.